Oil or gasolene can



(No Model.)

0..w'. & R. E. PROGTOR. -.OIL 0R GASOLENE CAN.

Na. 577,784. 4 Patented Peb.23,1897.'

N'ITE TATES ATENT FFICE.

CHARLES WILLIAM PROCTOR AND RICHARD EDWARD PROCTOR, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

OIL OR GASOLENE CAN.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,784, dated February 23, 1897.

Application filed January 4, 1897. Serial No. 617,959. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES WVILLIAM PROCTOR and RICHARD EDWARD PROOTOR, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Oil or Gasolene Can, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in oil or gasolene cans in which an aperture for inlet of air is provided; and the objects of our invention are, first, to affix a tube for admission of air at or near to the outer end of the spout from which the oil or gasolene is poured, in combination with our improved revolving valvular spout; secondly, to make this revolving valvular spout withdrawable for refilling the can, and, thirdly, to diminish cost of manufacture by dispensing, when preferred, with the ordinary screw-mouth, in which case our revolving valvular withdrawable stopplespout serves as substitute for a refilling screw-mouth. We attain these objects, including prevention of overflow of oil when pouring it or gasolene into, a fount, the flow ceasing when the level therein reaches the vent-tube, and closing both oil and air ways, whereby all leakage is prevented, whatever may be the position of the can when the spout has been revolved inwardly, and giving novel appearance in such inwardly-revolved non-leaking position of the spout, by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the upper part of the can, partly in section, and outlet-opening closed. Fig. 2 is a similar View with can in tipped position and outlet-opening open.

Fig. 3 is part of a top view with outlet-opening closed. Fig. 4 shows the combined closing-stopple and spout detached, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the outlet-opening and socket.

Similar figures refer to similar throughout the several views.

7 is body of can; 8, handle; 9, top; 10, outlet-opening and socket; 11, stopple; 12, spout; 13, outlet-opening in socket 10; 14, outletparts opening in stopple; 15, air-vent in stopple;

16, same in can; 17, air-passage in spout; 18, the one on can, and 19 air-vent in top of can while outpouring-openings 13 and 14 and vent-openings 15 and 16 register.

Our can is suitable for safely containing gasolene, the can being air-tight and preventing all evaporation. W'e sometimes combine with the parts herein described an ordinary filling-mouth, enabling to fill either at it or by withdrawing the plug, as may be preferred; also, in combination with an ordinary fillingmonth we sometimes make our plug nonwithdrawable, restricting the latter to its valvular and stopple uses.

We are aware that prior to our invention oil-cans have been made with their air-inlet so constructed and placed as to prevent overflow of oil when filling the oil-fount, and We do not, therefore, claim such a combination broadly; but

WVhat we do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an oil or gasolene can, having affixed in its top a tube extending down within the can,

and also protruding above it; its inner extension perforated laterally for outflow, and its outer extension perforated laterally for airway, and a pipe affixed along said top for continuing the airway to a vent-hole in the top, in combination with a tubular revoluble and withdrawable plug, closed at its bottom, and laterally perforated near thereto for outflow into a chamber in the lower part of the plug; said chamber communicating with a pouringspout; and an upper opposite lateral perforation, communicating with said airway-pipe; and an air-inletting tube, extending from the outer end of the spout to an air-chamber in the upper part of the plug, substantially as and for the uses and purposes herein stated and illustrated.

CHARLES WILLIAM PROCTOR. RICHARD EDWARD PROCTOR.

Witnesses:

WM. B. ROBINS, HENRY L. AYRES. 

